Many white writers have had a tendency to minimise and conveniently erase the Indigenous presence in the landscape
There were less visitors when the Pacific Highway was a deadly single, split carriageway that ribboned up and down mountainsides, arched wide around prime grazing pastures and seemingly ambled through every small town it could possibly find. In those times, it took up to nine hours by car to travel from the sandstone country of Sydney city to the casuarina and banksia-blanketed narrow strip of land and sudden trachyte dikes of Diamond Head.
A violent cleft on the northern side of the headland remains a defining feature; certainly it’s most striking upon first entering Diamond Head beach. Beyond lustrous red and yellow smooth hull-shaped rocks that sprawl from the foot of the promontory into the water, a vertical-walled gorge between the point proper and its gnarled, disjointed tip brims with sky.
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